ME caused by enterovirus??

Chronic fatigue syndrome (American for ME) is associated with chronic enterovirus infection of the stomach;
Journal of Clinical Pathology 30/8/07, by Doctors Chia and Chia

ME can be triggered by a number of treatable infections, and previous work showed that 50% of ME patients had raised neutralising antibody titres for 10 of the top 20 enteroviruses isolated in the USA.

Enteroviruses cause acute respiratory and gastrointestinal (abdominal) infections, and like to grow and hide in the central nervous system, the heart and our muscles.

At the time of oesophagogastroduodenoscopy (looking in the stomach with a flexible tube), the majority of patients had mild, focal inflammation in the first part of the stomach.
A total of (82%) stomach biopsy specimens stained positive for enteroviruses.

This suggests a strong association between enteroviral persistence/infection and ME.

A large number of patients with ME may have a chronic, widespread form of enteroviral infection, which could be diagnosed by stomach biopsy.

Collectively, these findings clearly support the concept of viral persistence in human tissues, which may be accountable for diverse manifestations of ME.

Muscle biopsy specimens taken from ME patients, and postmortem examination of brain tissues from one ME patient, years after the initial infection, also demonstrated the
persistence of enterovirus. Collectively, these findings clearly support the concept of viral persistence in human tissues, which may be accountable for diverse manifestations of ME.

This finding suggests that enterovirus infection caused the abdominal symptoms and ME, and the persistence of the virus years later was responsible for the patient’s symptoms.

There are a few interesting things about this article, for example:
1. There are indications that a virus is the cause of the disease and the reason why it persists as viruses tend to hide in our own cells.
2. This survey was only done because one doctor did not believe that it was all between the ears when his own son got ME.
3. Dear Mr Science Editor, more CBT from the MAGIC KINGDOM, or would you think that more research might be a better idea??